Here, we take a look at how the Craven magic has helped captivate a generation by bringing the outdoors into our living rooms each week.

If you thought you knew all there was to know about the show, check out our list of 25 Countryfile facts:

1. In the time John Craven has been presenting the programme, the countryside has had to cope with a catalogue of outbreaks from ‘mad cow disease’, listeria and salmonella to bovine TB, foot-and-mouth Schmallenberg virus.

We're not always in a good mooood (Photo: PA)

2. John Craven's first report on the show was on organic farming in 1989.

3. The presenter has survived 12 different Countryfile series producers without getting the chop.

4. Despite his age, he still films 25 programmes a year for the show.

Presenting Countryfile man and boy (Photo: BBC)

5. John Craven presented Newsround from 1972 to 1989.

6. He broadcast more than 3,000 episodes - only missing one when his eldest daughter was born. We'll let you off John.

7. The star is married to Marilyn and lives in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

8. The couple have two daughters and five grandchildren to keep them busy.

11. Countryfile's slot moved from lunchtime to Sunday evenings and helped boost ratings.

12. The show was involved in an ageism case in 2009 when Miriam O’Reilly, who is now 56, successfully sued the BBC for age discrimination and victimisation after she was sacked as one of four women presenters when by then BBC One controller, Jay Hunt.

Miriam O'Reilly (Pic:BBC)

13. The main Countryfile presenters are Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury .

14. John Craven was born in Leeds in 1940.

15. His father Bill was taken prisoner by the Japanese whilst serving in Singapore and made to work on the 'Death Railway'.

16. Endangered species is a cause close to Johns heart.

17. The presenter has also urged the UK to develop its "food security' considering that we only produce 60% of the food we consume.

18. The controversial issue of hunting has been one of the most emotive topics the show has covered.

19. John first reporting job was on the Harrogate Advertiser.

20. He entered television in 1970, begging for an audition for a children's current affairs programme called Search.

21. John believes "there's room for everyone in the countryside."

22. The Countryfile annual calendar raises thousands for BBC Children In Need.

BBC Children in Need Pudsey Bear is grateful to the show (Photo: Wenn)

23. The job has taken John on reports as far afield as Iceland and the Falkland Islands.